So, my colleague wanted to fix a problem we were having with GPO and instead of "disabling" them, he figured he would simply delete them from the GPMC.

Really it's not as bad as it sounds. I can still go to the SYSVOL and locate the old policies that were supposed to be deleted and restore them to a "new policy". Problem is it does not store the policy name... I think if I look in the event viewer of an affected machine I can get the missing GPO name back.

The problem is, does anyone knoe how to restore the GPO? I can't seem to load in any of the settings... Very encumbersome. Worst comes to worse, I will simply restore the system state. But the system backup that is functional is more than 60 days old and that could cause all kinds of other problems on the network...